Surry-Sussex-Bedford County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Presson, Amanda Wilson, 1986 

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AMANDA WILSON PRESSON 

  WAKEFIELD - Mrs. Amanda Wilson Presson, 72, of Rt. 1, Box 64, Wakefield, 
died Thursday, Oct. 16 in Goodrich Nursing Home, Wakefield after a long 
illness.

  A native of Forest, she was the daughter of the late David Kyle and Lora 
Scott Wilson.

  She is survived by her husband, Arthur Lee Presson Sr.; a daughter, Alice 
Elizabeth Presson, Charlottesville; and a sister, Marie W. Laughon, Wirtz 
and a number of nieces and nephews.

  A teacher in Virginia schools for 32 years, Mrs. Presson was a 1936 graduate 
of Farmville State Teachers college (now Longwood College) and she attended 
the College of William and Mary, and Virginia Commonwealth University for 
postgraduate work in Education.  She was a member of Rocky Hock United 
Methodist Church.

  From 1932 - 1940 she taught in Campbell County Public Schools at Brookville 
High School.  In 1940 whe was employed at the Federal Reserve Bank in 
Richmond.  From 1941 - 1942 she served as superintendent of the Department of 
Social Services in Augusta County.  In 1943 she accepted a position as 
superintendent of the Department of Social Services in Surry County and 
served in this capacity until 1948.  She began to teach again at Wakefield 
High School, 1954-1955, and taught until her retirement in 1978 at the 
following; 1956-1960, Wakefield Elementary School, sixth grade; 1961 - 1963, 
Surry County High School; 1963 -1965, Surry County Academy; 1965-1978, Prince 
George County Elementary School.

  She was a member of the Virginia Education Association, was former president 
of the Wakefield Parent-Teacher Association, was a member of Kappa Delta Pi, 
honorary teaching fraternity, was a former member of the Wakefield Woman’s 
Club, was a member of the Frances   Chapter of the National Society of the 
Daughters of the American Revolution, the General William Mahone Chapter of 
the United Daughters of the Confederacy, and the Rolfe-Warren Association for 
the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities.

  Services were held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 18 in the Purviance Funeral 
Home, Wakefield by the Rev. E. Lee Chattin.  Burial was in the Rocky Hock 
United Methodist Church Cemetery, Surry County.

  Memorial donations are suggested to the American Cancer Society or the Rocky 
Hock United Methodist Church Memorial Fund.


Amanda (WILSON; Mrs. Arthur L. Sr.) PRESSON, retired teacher, 
b. 13 Sep 1914, Forest, Bedford Co., d. 16 Oct 1986, Wakefield, 
interred in Rocky Hock Methodist Church Cemetery*, 18 Oct 1986, 
donated obit, publication unknown 

*Find a Grave Mem. #137189286. 

Her parents are buried in Forest Baptist Church Cemetery, Forest. 
   (Find a Grave Mem. #65268987 &c.) 

Her husband's (donated, 1999) obit is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/surry/obits/p625a4ob.txt 


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